Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Fantasy Golf: The Zurich Classic Preview

Well whatever we did (or in this case didn't do) last week worked as we pegged our third winner of the season.* Based on that success and the fact that we've got a little something special occupying our time (hint: Kiper), we're going to apply that same laissez-faire approach this week. It seems like a somewhat straightforward pick anyway. When Billy Horschel does his annual impersonation of a suddenly lit sparkler, you run with him before he burns your fingers (because you just had to milk the last three seconds out of that life changing experience). This is especially true when he's playing an event that he won three years ago. Which he is. This week. Starting Thursday. The other option is Justin Rose who has slipped out of the uber elite category and descended to lower level elite status just above the Snedeker/Matsuyama platform. However, I'd like to see his game wake-up before throwing him out there at a worthy event like The Memorial. If you don't want to roll the dice with a player of that caliber on a course that's a bit of a crapshoot (New Orleans + gambling analogies = gold), then go with Cameron Tringale. Sure he's playing like garbage but check-out his track record at the TPC of Louisiana: 2nd, T17th, Cut, T7th, T18th and T28th. He is what they call down at the stables "a horse for the course" (and with lines like that, I am what they call down at the stables "a doofus").

Footnote* My rube move of the week was predicting the winner and then failing to include him in any of my six man teams. That's the problem with casually picking a team every 10-12 hours instead of doing them altogether. It's like packing over the course of three days for a one week trip. You end-up with twelve t-shirts, five belts and no fucking socks.Email the Fantasy Golf Report at fgr@fantasygolfreport.com.